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(And the whole Vogon/Rawhide thing going back to the spring.)

He found a way to say what had to be said and those of us who knew it had to be said had to fall in behind him.

But SeaBos deserves the credit for bringing the message that resources were being misallocated in the Cantwell race.

Ring around the collar
The heartbreak of psoriasis
Nagging backache
Itchy, scaly dandruff
Engine ping
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Dropped calls

It's MARIA CANTWELL, and her failure to move left!

Asked to justify his startling conclusions, Dr. David Bailey, MD, PhD, LLD, DJ, FOS, stated boldly:

"Because I say so."

If perception is reality, then the world must be flat and the sun must revolve around it.

There was no time for her to get on-message?

There was no time for her to change her freakin' schedule and campaign in the 8th?

Come on.

But I am alternately scared/disencouraged from polling simply because it is collective wisdom that polls are crap! We make fun of that here, with fun polls which make fun of polls (hey, some of us live in Ballard, which at one point in time must have been haunted by Lutherans).

I think that if you devised a suitable poll, you'd find that Washblog readers (posters in particular) were probably the most evil, ornery, despicable people that any hapless pollster could find themselves chained to by an arbitrary construction of atoms cajoled into concerted effort by modern technology.

That was nonsense.

Facts are facts.

She was NEVER behind and she led by double digits the whole way. All contentions that she was in trouble from McGavick were hysteria. Facts are facts.

When you spend a lot of resources on a race you win my 18%, that is a misallocation. It's just that simple.

This was a different kind of election from 2000 and people had better get used to this FAST. Conservatism is dying. We are in a different mode here. People like Rahm Emanuel got their predictions very wrong because they did not see the political dynamic correctly. Howard Dean did.

Be smart. Change.

We should be talking about the fact that the transition came before we are ready to say what Progressivism is. We're not prepared the way the Republicans were in '94. Yes, they were about rejection, but they were also building on a base of the development of Movement Conservatism.

We have to move slower, but we have to move. Compromise is over. The American people want to understand what is wrong with the Republicans THEY voted for. Why did movement conservatism not work? That's what we have to answer first.

Why didn't Iraq work?

Why can't the Republicans lower the deficit?

Why is the economy okay despite high debt?

Why is there such a disparity between rich and poor people?

These are hard, serious questions and people are open to a process of figuring them out. That openness is what we should be working on.

Campaigns like Clinton's and Cantwell's assume that people's minds are closed. Normally that's true. Normally, tactical, Clinton politics is what you have to do. But this is one of these rare times.

Hong Tran for Senate!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uh oh.....

As I told MANY Dems and 3 different press people, there were 3 reasons they Dems were doing well:

Frist - Iraq, Katrina, Deficit on and on and on,
Second - REAL moderate Dem Candidates Who FOUGHT,
Third - HOWARD's 50 state strategy,

AND ALMOST NOTHING from Hillary / Cantwell / Rahm crowd.

dlaw brings up some really good points about how the Dems "worked" during this election cycle in this state.  Not being on the inside, I can only reflect on the media I've seen and the results in the vote count, and

Things sure could have helped Darcy and Goldmark and Wright and and a lot more.

I recall quite vividly some of Pelosi's comments from the big screen, and,

I couldn't believe how complicated the sentences were and how big the words were.  I am glad that all the uber - educated poli-sci major types are being satiated with big complex thoughts, but

where is the nice simple stuff to use day to day? day to day when we are yakking with whoever whereever and it makes it easy to say

this is what they're gonna do,
this is what they are doing,
this is what they did.

Thanks to moveon, thanks to actblue, thanks to the blogs,

thanks to the zillions of volunteer foot soldier citizens who did what they could for whoever they could, regardless of how incompetent their generals and their captains.

rmm.  

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